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It is unclear where the injured will be treated, or even when and to what extent they will be replaced.
But the figures show the extraordinary cost incurred by President Vladimir Putin’s allies, the likes of Kim Jong Un, as he sought to help him expel Ukrainian forces from Russia ahead of ceasefire talks later in the year.
Ukraine launched a lightning push into Russian territory in Kursk last August, surprising Russian border guards.
The government in Kyiv made it clear at the time that it had no intention of retaining the captured territory, only using it as a bargaining chip in future peace talks.
Ukraine’s initial gains in Kursk have since been steadily pushed back, partly due to the arrival in Russia of North Korea in October.
But Ukraine still holds several hundred square kilometers of Russian territory and is inflicting huge losses on its enemies.
North Korean troops, reportedly from an “elite” unit called the Storm Corps, appear to have been thrown into the fight with little training or protection.
“These are barely trained troops led by Russian officers they don’t understand,” said former British Army tank commander Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
“Frankly they don’t stand a chance. They are thrown into a meat grinder with little chance of survival. They are cannon animals, and the Russian officers care less for them than their own men”.
Reports attributed to South Korean intelligence say North Korea is unprepared for the realities of modern warfare, and appears particularly vulnerable to being targeted by Ukraine’s First-Person-View (FPV) drones, a weapon already familiar in the war space. further south in the Donbas region of Ukraine for the current year.
However, Ukraine’s top military commander Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi warned earlier this week that North Korean soldiers are posing a significant problem for Ukrainian fighters on the front line.
“That’s a lot. An additional 11,000-12,000 soldiers are highly motivated and well-prepared who are doing offensive actions. They operate based on Soviet tactics. They act in platoons, companies. They rely on their numbers,” said the Ukrainian general TSN Tyzhden. news program.
